Month: February 2022

Everyone Can Be a Changemaker

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others” – Mahatma Gandhi. Haiti has become the birthplace of countless changemakers, especially the unnamed heroes that have dedicated countless hours and effort working with nonprofits driven by a singular purpose of creating positive change in our world. Changemakers People like…
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Sustaining Civil Society

Within the current framework of intellectual struggle and global activism against systemic and institutional racism, the international community must recognize that Haiti’s victimization through racialized capitalism jeopardizes the daily lives of Haitians both inside and outside Haiti. Theories that paint Haiti as a fragile or failed state are inaccurate as they ignore the power of…
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Understand the Difference Between a Pledge and a Donation

As of Wednesday, February 16, 2022, foreign governments and international financial institutions had pledged $600 million in immediate and long-term aid to help Haiti’s cash-starved government launch a four-year plan to assist devastated communities along with its southern peninsula recover and rebuild after the deadly earthquake last August. To begin, here are a few definitions: One of the most common meanings of…
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Increasing the Value of Civil Society

International nonprofits and civil society organizations across the globe are under heavy pressure from the Covid-19 pandemic. If there has ever been a time in recent decades where we must raise our consciousness of the value of these institutions, it is now.   Civil society refers not only to domestic and social life but also to…
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The No. 1 Question Everyone Working in Haiti Should Know How to Answer

For centuries, man has been working. The primary goal of the job was to provide for the family’s needs. Man went hunting in search of food or protecting himself from predators. He then became a land cultivator to provide food for his family. Then the work changed; it was seen as a source of wealth.…
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